Saturday, September 29, 2012

I Hate The War

In a week of big news on Iraq, it was natural the US press might overlook some but, it can be argued, they overlooked pretty much everything.

They did manage to cover the Tikrit prison assualt. But, unless their names were Ali A. Nabhan and Sam Dagher (Wall St. Journal), there's really not much that can be pointed to with pride as they all avoided the issue of the death penalty and the amnesty bill despite the fact that the escapees are said to be death row inmates.

Or rather about one sentence. The sentence after the one explaining negotiations were taking place. Tom apparently missed that sentence. Which is why Nation readers have no idea that there are negotiations taking place to send US troops back into Iraq even as Nouri barnstorms the country insisting he removed all US troops from Iraq.

Then there was Michael R. Gordon and Bernard Trinor's new book The Endgame. Has a book co-written by Gordon ever been so sparsely covered?

Those foreign policy and national security types who did manage to find the book had high praise for it. But somehow the media overall wasn't.

How does that happen? Oh, that's right. Gordon and Trinor mistakenly believed that when writing about foreign policy choices, you could evaluate them, critique them. Not in the La La Land the media's decided to live in to protect Barack Obama.

About Me

We do not open attachments. Stop e-mailing them. Threats and abusive e-mail are not covered by any privacy rule. This isn't to the reporters at a certain paper (keep 'em coming, they are funny). This is for the likes of failed comics who think they can threaten via e-mails and then whine, "E-mails are supposed to be private." E-mail threats will be turned over to the FBI and they will be noted here with the names and anything I feel like quoting.
This also applies to anyone writing to complain about a friend of mine. That's not why the public account exists.